Apologies if this study has already been linked here.
Barcelona Media studied emotion and dialogue on English Wikipedia
article talk pages and published the paper "Emotions under Discussion:
Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration" in PLOS ONE.
Among the study's findings was that "female editors engage in
relationship-oriented speech that is conducive to a positive working
environment."
I believe their conclusions also reinforce some of the initiatives at
the Gender Gap Task Force. Particularly relevant is their conclusion
that "our results suggest that being able to involve more women and to
give them more space in the community would also result in a virtuous
cycle of female participation, through the creation of a communication
environment where they feel more comfortable."
Link to open source article:
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104880>
Link to Spanish language news article:
<http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20141027/54417582364/las-mujeres-usan-mas-…>
~gobonobo
Fabulous collection of images, see below.
Most are public domain - meaning ripe for uploading to Commons :)
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From: Carol Stabile <carol.stabile(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:11 PM
Subject: fembot: Announcing a new pictorial digital women's history
collection
To: media & technology collaboration gender <fembot(a)lists.uoregon.edu>
Thought some of you would be interested in this.
best,
Carol A. Stabile, Professor
School of Journalism and Communication/Department of Women’s and Gender
Studies
University of Oregon
Editor, The Fembot Collective
>
> Dear WMST-Lers
>
> I am pleased to announce the availability of a wonderful online
collection of photographs of women’s everyday possessions in the 19th and
early 20th centuries, plus numerous digitized texts (magazines, books,
postcards, posters, and more) concerning women during that period. The
objects and printed works themselves were amassed by Dovie Horvitz, and
Illinois-based collector who hopes to find an institutional home for the
entire collection some day — perhaps the presence of the photographs and
digitized works will spark that interest. We hope so.
>
> Objects in the collection include clothing (dresses, hosiery, bustles,
garters, swimwear, undergarments, aprons, and more), accessories such as
shoes and boots, hats, gloves, purses, fans, handkerchiefs, furs, and
parasols; menstrual and other health products; cosmetic and grooming kits,
powders, and related make-up items; dresser sets (combs and brushes);
curling irons and other hair care devices; perfumes; boudoir pillow covers;
eye glasses; and exercise equipment. The printed matter includes numerous
women’s magazines, Sunday supplement illustrations, sheet music about
women, suffrage postcards, World War I and II posters, photographs of teen
parties, and pamphlets about sex, health, and menstruation. Page after page
of ad-filled women’s magazines, as well as packaging elements such as
hairnet envelopes, hosiery, handkerchief and hat boxes, constitute an
important part of the collection. Most of the material is American in
origin.
>
> The collection seems of most immediate interest to women’s history
classes, but American literature, communication arts (especially
marketing), medical history, design, and other fields should also find it
useful. It is also simply a pleasure to browse!
>
> Please pass this message along to others at your institution.
>
> The fully searchable and browsable online collection homepage is
athttp://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/GenderStudies.DovieHorvitz
>
> An article about the collection is at
http://www.library.wisc.edu/news/2014/10/13/dovie-horvitz-collection-showca…
.
>
>
> Phyllis Holman Weisbard
> Women's Studies Librarian Emerita
> phweisba(a)wisc.edu
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Both of the presentations at the October Wikimedia Research Showcase were
fascinating and I encourage everyone to watch them [1]. I would like to
continue to discuss the themes from the showcase about Wikipedia's
adaptability, viability, and diversity.
Aaron's discussion about Wikipedia's ongoing internal adaptations, and
the slowing of those adaptations, reminded me of this statement from MIT
Technology Review in 2013 (and I recommend reading the whole article [2]):
"The main source of those problems (with Wikipedia) is not mysterious. The
loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male,
operates a crushing bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that
deters newcomers who might increase partipcipation in Wikipedia and broaden
its coverage."
I would like to contrast that vision of Wikipedia with the vision presented
by User:CatherineMunro (formatting tweaks by me), which I re-read when I
need encouragement:
"THIS IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA
One gateway
to the wide garden of knowledge,
where lies
The deep rock of our past,
in which we must delve
The well of our future,
The clear water
we must leave untainted
for those who come after us,
The fertile earth,
in which truth may grow
in bright places,
tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine,
warming our first steps
toward knowing
how much we do not know."
How can we align ouselves less with the former vision and more with the
latter? [3]
I hope that we can continue to discuss these themes on the Research mailing
list. Please contribute your thoughts and questions there.
Regards,
Pine
[1] youtube.com/watch?v=-We4GZbH3Iw
[2]
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikiped…
[3] Lest this at first seem to be impossible, I will borrow and tweak a
quote from from George Bernard Shaw and later used by John F. Kennedy:
"Some people see things as they are and say, 'Why?' Let us dream things
that never were and say, 'Why not?'"
Regarding resources - please note that I have all the entries from
CarolMoore sandbox as well as some others in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sphilbrick/Gender_Gap_resources
I organized it as a table, so you can sort by author if you are looking
from some author, or you can sort by format, if you want to identify
reliable sources, or by date etc.
I want to move it from a personal sandbox to some better location, not sure
whether it belongs in a Wikipedia page or a Meta page. I'm also looking for
feedback on the list of formats, whether additional fields would be
helpful, and how to make sure additional items are added, so we can have a
comprehensive list in one location.
Phil
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Dear colleagues,
As you may have heard,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extracti…
is an individual engagement grant proposal. I am working on this proposal
with volunteer assistance and advice from Aaron Halfaker (WMF), Haitham
Shammaa (WMF), and Fabian Flöck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Institute_of_Technology>).
We are still developing this proposal, and plan to have it finalized in the
next few days.
We would greatly appreciate your comments on whether you support or oppose
the general concept of this project, and any suggestions about how to
refine the proposal.
Additionally, we would like to hear from you about which sets of editor
interaction data, and what visualizations of editor interaction data, would
be most relevant to your interests. We intend to prioritize our outputs
with your comments in mind.
Please comment on the proposal talk page. Questions and feedback, both
positive and critical, are helpful to us as the proposers, and also help
the Individual Engagement Grants Committee [1] to assess the proposal.
Regards,
Pine
[1] I am a member of the Individual Engagement Grants Committee. I am
recusing from reviewing proposals in this funding round.
A news story about a track and field sportswoman. It only mentions
Wikipedia once, but it made me smile.
Made me smile because they talk about her Wikipedia page...
"In fact, Theisen-Eaton has her own Wikipedia page. While she said that it
doesn’t feel particularly weird, she does wonder who wrote it, and her
family and friends claim they’re not the culprit."
http://www.humboldtjournal.ca/article/20141015/HUMBOLDT0101/141019931/-1/hu…
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Sarah Stierch
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Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization.
www.sarahstierch.com